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Skydive To Raise Funds for Group B Strep Support Charity
The Rector from St Nicholas Church in Godstone, is going to Skydive for charity.
Reverend Peter O’Connell would like to raise £500 in support of the Group B Strep Support charity. Group B Streptococcus is the leading cause of infant mortality in the UK yet most infections are preventable. The charity informs and supports families and health professionals about the life-threatening infection.
Peter decided to arrange the fund raising event after holding the funeral of baby Eleanor who sadly died at just 2 days old from sepsis triggered by Group B Streptococcus infection.
Reverend Peter O’Connell spoke with Susy Radio’s Neil Munday about the condition and how he hopes the Skydive will help the cause.
More information can be found at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/revpeteroconnell
Photo credit: Tracey Franklin. Photo shows St Nicholas Church in Godstone
Parents To Write a Lullaby For Crawley
A local project begins tomorrow to create a lullaby for Crawley through a series of online workshops.
Murmuration Arts is running The NightLight Lullabies project, a free online six-week programme especially for parents. Participants can join the Zoom workshops to share and reflect on their journeys to parenthood. They will then collectively write a lullaby for Crawley over the six weeks.
The project is run in partnership with Leonardslee Gardens and Crawley Museum and is funded by Heritage Lottery. Once it’s been produced, there are plans for the new lullaby to have a wider audience when it will be presented at Crawley Museum throughout April and May as part of an exhibition.
Shan Robins found out more about the project from Marion Duggan, Artistic Director at Murmuration Arts:
The lullaby you can hear in this feature is the Lullaby for Leonardslee which the Murmuration Arts team arranged and produced last year. It was commissioned by Leonardslee Gardens and Leonardslee Illuminated and funded by Heritage Lottery and Arts Council England in partnership with Crawley Museum.
This lullaby was co-written in collaboration with local mothers:
Carmen Ballestas
Hannah Sutton
Christina Money
Lydia Prentice
Nevelina Rousseva
Pareveen Khan
Composer: Laura Wright
Workshop facilitators: Laura Wright and Marion Duggan
Singers: Cate Ferris, Faye Houston, Laura Luard
Instrumentalist & Music Production: Cate Ferris
Videography: Rosie Powell
Producer: Laura Wright
Artistic Director: Marion Duggan
Crawley Bids To Host Queen’s Baton Relay
Crawley has made a bid to host a leg of the Commonwealth Games’ Queen’s Baton Relay in July.
The relay began in October last year when The Queen placed her Message to the Commonwealth inside the baton. It is currently travelling on its way through Commonwealth countries around the world. It will return to the UK on the 18th June for a six week tour of the four home nations, before being handed to the Queen during the Opening Ceremony in Birmingham. The Queen’s Baton Relay will be in the south east of England for two days in July.
As well as a bid to host a leg of the relay, Crawley Borough Council has submitted a bid to host an iconic photo moment, and a community event in the town centre.
Photos credit: Crawley Borough Council
£1m of drugs and cash seized in one year in Sussex
Photo: Sussex Police
A specialist policing unit has seized an estimated £1 million worth of drugs and cash from criminals in its first year of operation.
Sussex Police’s Specialist Enforcement Unit (SEU) was set up in January 2021 to tackle serious and dangerous offenders using the road network and to disrupt the supply of drugs into the county.
The team of highly-trained officers and detectives has already accounted for more than 21,000 policing hours across three divisions and has been involved in more than 400 arrests.
This has included working on operations such as murder investigations, tackling drugs offences, responding to driving offences and catching dangerous offenders and suspects wanted on warrants.
SEU officers cover hundreds of miles of the road network across Sussex every day, carrying out proactive patrols and working closely with colleagues such as the Roads Policing Unit (RPU), Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Border Force, Community Investigations Teams, the Force Intelligence Bureau, and divisional officers.
The unit has also helped forge effective working partnerships with neighbouring forces in Kent, Hampshire, Surrey and with the Metropolitan Police.
Some successes include more than 50 pre-emptive vehicle tactics used, 1,125 intelligence logs submitted, 556 stop searches, 222 vehicle seizures, and 96 weapons being seized.
The unit has helped with the safeguarding of vulnerable people by completing 75 referrals and has supported colleagues with 280 reports for minor traffic offences.
Chief Constable Jo Shiner said: “The launch of the Specialist Enforcement Unit a year ago increased our ability to deter, detect and disrupt serious criminals intent on travelling into Sussex to commit offences.
“Officers have provided extra, visible and robust policing on Sussex’s roads, using both marked and unmarked vehicles equipped with the latest technology to identify and intercept known offenders, target hot spots, and support colleagues in making the roads safer for everyone – one of our key priorities.
“From drugs and violent crime, to people trafficking, child exploitation and theft, most criminals have to use the roads which are therefore prime hunting ground for the police.
“I am delighted with the difference officers have made so far. The SEU has been relentless in its pursuit and capture of some of our most dangerous and prolific criminals by denying them use of the roads.”
The unit was established as part of a series of police enforcement teams including the Tactical Enforcement Units, the Rural Crime Team and extra Roads Policing Unit officers to be launched across Sussex in the last two years funded by the Government’s Uplift programme and local precept investment.
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne said: “It has been a successful, crime-busting first year for the Specialist Enforcement Unit (SEU) as they tackle serious, violent and organised criminals using our county’s roads.
“I am delighted to see the extra investment that has enabled the SEU to be established has led to so many positive results in getting the most dangerous and prolific criminals off our roads and protecting our communities, especially those who are most vulnerable.
“The team’s impressive work and their relentless, proactive approach goes a long way towards making Sussex a much safer place for everyone.”
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